Programmers who write apps compatible with the iPhone have found a way around dealing with Apple's sometimes frustrating Appstore: write them as Web apps, and then run them in the iPhone's Safari Web browser.
Today Google says that HTML 5 lets GMail run snappily in mobile browsers. I just checked it out, and sure enough: GMail in Safari is much faster than accessing GMail through the iPhone's native Mail application. It felt to me like I was using a desktop email client, instead of a Web-based one.
This is all fine and dandy for apps that are largely text-based and involve the Web. It's not as easy to make something like Sketch Mobile run in a browser -- snappily or at all.
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Opera Mobile, Safari, Android, Firefox Mobile all support HTML 5. (This version of HTML is not yet standardized, and so we can expect more capabilities over the next years.)
Naturally Google is excited about having a really fast Web platform, and now Mozzila is claiming that...
Well, well, well. Maybe that famous Netscape prediction of 1.5 decades ago is coming true, you know, the one about the browser eventually replacing the operating system -- the prediction that so freaked out Bill Gates that he got his programmers to integrate Internet Explorer into the Windows operating system, thereby causing Microsoft to get busted by American and EU business regulators as a monopolist.
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Today Google says that HTML 5 lets GMail run snappily in mobile browsers. I just checked it out, and sure enough: GMail in Safari is much faster than accessing GMail through the iPhone's native Mail application. It felt to me like I was using a desktop email client, instead of a Web-based one.
This is all fine and dandy for apps that are largely text-based and involve the Web. It's not as easy to make something like Sketch Mobile run in a browser -- snappily or at all.
In Related News
Opera Mobile, Safari, Android, Firefox Mobile all support HTML 5. (This version of HTML is not yet standardized, and so we can expect more capabilities over the next years.)
Naturally Google is excited about having a really fast Web platform, and now Mozzila is claiming that...
...its new Firefox Mobile browser could be the beginning of the end for the hugely popular app stores created by Apple and its ilk.(Amen to that.)
Well, well, well. Maybe that famous Netscape prediction of 1.5 decades ago is coming true, you know, the one about the browser eventually replacing the operating system -- the prediction that so freaked out Bill Gates that he got his programmers to integrate Internet Explorer into the Windows operating system, thereby causing Microsoft to get busted by American and EU business regulators as a monopolist.
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